Patent Grant
9135850
This disclosure relates generally to techniques for illuminating light sources for operating system selections are described herein. Specifically, this disclosure relates to a display material having abrasion scorings to reflect an image associated with an operating system.
With the fast growth of computing devices, multifunctional computing devices may be desired by consumers. Some computing devices may be configured to load two or more types of operating systems. In some scenarios, a given operating system may include a home button that is unique to the operating system. During a pre-boot phase, a user may select an operating system to load on the computing device. In some scenarios, an image, such as a logo associated with the user selected operating system, may be displayed somewhere on the device.
The same numbers are used throughout the disclosure and the figures to reference like components and features. Numbers in the 100 series refer to features originally found in
The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for illuminating operating system selections. As discussed above, some computing devices may include dual operating system implementations, wherein a user may select from among multiple operating systems in a pre-boot stage. For example, an All-In-One computing device may include an operating system associated with a traditional desktop computer, as well as an operating system associated with a mobile computing device, such as tablet, smartphone, or the like. In many cases, a selected operating system may have a home button displaying an image associated with the selected operating system. The embodiments described herein include a first abrasion scoring and a second abrasion scoring of a display material. The display material may be a glass, acrylic, or other at least semitransparent material, wherein the abrasion scoring reflects light at intersecting points of the scoring such that a given image, such as a logo associated with a selected operating system, may be reflected. The embodiments described herein describe a technique wherein an image associated with a selected operating system is reflected at the display material due to the abrasion scoring.
The controller 108 may be logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic. In some embodiments, the controller 108 be a set of instructions stored on the storage device 104, that when executed by the processor 102, direct the computing device 101 to perform operations including receiving an operating system selection, and identifying a light source associate with the operating system selection. Whether the controller 108 is implemented as logic, an integrated circuit, or a set of instructions to be carried out by the processor 102, the controller 108 is configured to illuminate an identified light source such that an image associated with the selected operating system is reflected at abrasion scoring of a display material.
The processor 102 may be a main processor that is adapted to execute the stored instructions. The processor 102 may be a single core processor, a multi-core processor, a computing cluster, or any number of other configurations. The processor 102 may be implemented as Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) or Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processors, x86 Instruction set compatible processors, multi-core, or any other microprocessor or central processing unit (CPU).
The memory device 106 can include random access memory (RAM) (e.g., static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), zero capacitor RAM, Silicon-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon SONOS, embedded DRAM, extended data out RAM, double data rate (DDR) RAM, resistive random access memory (RRAM), parameter random access memory (PRAM), etc.), read only memory (ROM) (e.g., Mask ROM, programmable read only memory (PROM), erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM), etc.), flash memory, or any other suitable memory systems. The main processor 102 may be connected through a system bus 114 (e.g., Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), PCI-Express, HyperTransport®, NuBus, etc.) to components including the memory 106, the storage device 104, and the controller 108.
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The images 208 and 210 may each be associated with operating systems, such as the operating systems 112, of
In some embodiments, a first polarizing material 410 may be used on the outer surface of the display material 206. A second polarizing 412 material, having an opposite polarity than the first polarizing material 410, may be used on the inner surface of the display material 206. The opposite polarity between the first and second polarizing material 410 and 412 enables the display material 206 to display an image as light is reflected from the light sources 402 and 404, while appearing dark, similar to a dark coloring of a housing, such as the housing 202 of
In embodiments, the first light source and the second source may be non-moving components of the computing device. In some embodiments, the method 500 includes forming a first polarization material and a second polarization material having opposite polarities. The first polarization material may be disposed on an outer surface and the second polarization material may be disposed on an inner surface of the display material. The polarization materials may enable light incoming from the outside of the indicator apparatus to be reflected back appearing dark, whereas light originating from one or more of the light sources may propagate through the display material such that an image associated with a selected operating system may be visible to outside observers.
The various software components discussed herein may be stored on the tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium 600, as indicated in
An embodiment is an implementation or example. Reference in the specification to “an embodiment,” “one embodiment,” “some embodiments,” “various embodiments,” or “other embodiments” means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiments is included in at least some embodiments, but not necessarily all embodiments, of the present techniques. The various appearances of “an embodiment,” “one embodiment,” or “some embodiments” are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiments.
Not all components, features, structures, characteristics, etc. described and illustrated herein need be included in a particular embodiment or embodiments. If the specification states a component, feature, structure, or characteristic “may”, “might”, “can” or “could” be included, for example, that particular component, feature, structure, or characteristic is not required to be included. If the specification or claim refers to “a” or “an” element, that does not mean there is only one of the element. If the specification or claims refer to “an additional” element, that does not preclude there being more than one of the additional element.
It is to be noted that, although some embodiments have been described in reference to particular implementations, other implementations are possible according to some embodiments. Additionally, the arrangement and/or order of circuit elements or other features illustrated in the drawings and/or described herein need not be arranged in the particular way illustrated and described. Many other arrangements are possible according to some embodiments.
In each system shown in a figure, the elements in some cases may each have a same reference number or a different reference number to suggest that the elements represented could be different and/or similar. However, an element may be flexible enough to have different implementations and work with some or all of the systems shown or described herein. The various elements shown in the figures may be the same or different. Which one is referred to as a first element and which is called a second element is arbitrary.
It is to be understood that specifics in the aforementioned examples may be used anywhere in one or more embodiments. For instance, all optional features of the computing device described above may also be implemented with respect to either of the methods or the computer-readable medium described herein. Furthermore, although flow diagrams and/or state diagrams may have been used herein to describe embodiments, the techniques are not limited to those diagrams or to corresponding descriptions herein. For example, flow need not move through each illustrated box or state or in exactly the same order as illustrated and described herein.
The present techniques are not restricted to the particular details listed herein. Indeed, those skilled in the art having the benefit of this disclosure will appreciate that many other variations from the foregoing description and drawings may be made within the scope of the present techniques. Accordingly, it is the following claims including any amendments thereto that define the scope of the present techniques.
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